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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man inside the room with Greek inscription say empowers him?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Writing.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Books.

2. Who destroys the asylum?
(a) Batman.
(b) Two Face.
(c) Cavendish.
(d) The Joker.

3. What do the words around the hero's image describe at the end of the novel?
(a) The Joker.
(b) The asylum.
(c) His mental instability.
(d) Cowardly criminals.

4. How many months after his wife and child were killed does Amadeus open the asylum?
(a) Six.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Eight.

5. What item or weapon is used to destroy the asylum?
(a) An ax.
(b) A water hose.
(c) A spear.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is interested in little blonde girls?

2. What does Amadeus hear under his mother's bed?

3. Who kills Cavendish?

4. What image represents the hero at the end of the novel?

5. What illegal substance does Amadeus begin to use himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly discuss Amadeus' death.

2. What does Croc symbolize in the novel?

3. What effect has the secret room had on Cavendish and why?

4. How does a memory from decades earlier described in Arkham's journal relate to the hero?

5. Explain how a statue helps save the hero's life.

6. Explain what happens when the villain decides whether the hero lives or dies?

7. Describe Doctor Destiny's appearance and what made him a dangerous villain. How does the hero defeat him?

8. How does Arkham get the laughing he hears from an empty room to stop. Why does this work?

9. What in the novel makes a connection between past and present? Explain why.

10. How are the challenges facing the hero as he walks through the asylum parallel to Arkham's own challenges as simultaneously reflected in his journal?

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